The UK government’s net expenditure (funding from the science budget) on the Research Councils’ R&D fell 2.3% in 2012 to £3,194 million ($5,070 million) in real terms. All figures below are net expenditures in real terms. Government net expenditures on R&D fell for all Councils except the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, for which it rose 9.6% to £472 million. Government’s expenditure on Higher Education Funding Councils’ R&D fell 4.0% to £2,257 million. Among civil departments, R&D spending for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS); Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs; and Department of Health grew 54.7%, 0.5% and 0.3% to £645 million, £157 million and £904 million, respectively, in 2012. For the Research Councils, net government R&D expenditure for pure basic and orientated basic research fell 10.5% and 0.6% to £707 million and £1,211 million, respectively, but for strategic applied and specific applied research rose 2.0% and 29.1% to £914 million and £275 million, respectively. For experimental research, it increased 8.1% to £54 million.

Source: BIS